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Joe Biden Compromised plus Huge Ruling by SCOTUS on Affirmative Action and Victory in Religious Liberty Case · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: Welcome in his verdict for Senator Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: with you, a huge ruling from the Supreme Court has
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: come down on affirmative action. We're going to get to
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: that in a moment, plus a religious liberty case victory
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: that we want to get you up to date on.
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  Speaker 1: But before we get to that, James Comer has come out,
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  Speaker 1: Senator and said that Joe Biden made six policy decisions
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  Speaker 1: that indicate that he is and these are his words, compromised.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get your reaction to this, as he
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  Speaker 1: has now said, they can connect dots. They've identified these
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  Speaker 1: six specific policy decisions that President Joe Biden made that
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  Speaker 1: indicate that he has compromised by people that I guess
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  Speaker 1: he owes favors to Your reaction to.
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  Speaker 2: That, well, every day the facts continue to get worse
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  Speaker 2: and worse about Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. As you noted,
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  Speaker 2: James Comer said just this week that his committee has
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  Speaker 2: identified a total of six decisions, four of which were
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  Speaker 2: made while Joe Biden was president early on. And then
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  Speaker 2: this is a quote. We cannot come to any other
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  Speaker 2: conclusion as to why these decisions were made other than
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  Speaker 2: the fact that this president is compromised. Comber continued, quote,
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  Speaker 2: this was organized crime. There's no other way to define it.
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  Speaker 2: And here's what Comber continued to say. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: try to determine how much money the Bidens took and
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  Speaker 2: what role Joe Biden played in all of this. It's
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  Speaker 2: a huge puzzle. And then he provided some very real specifics.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what Comber stated, quote around thirty to forty different
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  Speaker 2: banks and about that many different shell companies. This is
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  Speaker 2: an organized attempt by the Biden family to hide the
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  Speaker 2: source of money going into these shell companies and to
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  Speaker 2: distract from the IRS so that they wouldn't have to
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  Speaker 2: pay taxes on it. And that's exactly what the IRS
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  Speaker 2: whistleblowers alleged in the transcribed interview with the Ways and
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  Speaker 2: Means Committee, that the Biden family never paid money on
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  Speaker 2: any of these wires that came into these shell companies.
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  Speaker 2: Comer went on to say that the Biden family businesses
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  Speaker 2: of the over the course of several years, received at
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  Speaker 2: least ten million dollars from Romania and from China. A
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  Speaker 2: total of nine Biden family members received payments, including two
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  Speaker 2: of Joe Biden's grandchildren and I don't know about you,
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  Speaker 2: but it's pretty typical for grandchildren to be receiving payments
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  Speaker 2: from Romania and China. Yeah, totally normal and in fact,
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of this. Breitbart has a great article
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  Speaker 2: that lays a lot of these facts out. But Breitbart
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  Speaker 2: continues pointing out that Celtic Capri Corps in its twenty
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  Speaker 2: seventeen tax returns listed nearly ten million dollars without specifying
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  Speaker 2: revenue line items and raising real concerns about who paid
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  Speaker 2: that entity, particularly in the wake of Biden's alleged link
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  Speaker 2: to a five million dollar Ukrainian bribery scheme. And I'll
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  Speaker 2: point out that Breitbart then quotes from this podcast and says, quote,
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  Speaker 2: You're looking at a tax return that has a ten
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  Speaker 2: million dollars in cash that came from a mystery source.
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  Speaker 2: And I always like when I'm reading for a press story,
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  Speaker 2: quoting from the podcast saying that that suggests that what
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  Speaker 2: we're covering here matters and it's moving the news forward.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: One of the other things that I think is so
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  Speaker 1: interesting now is how long this investigation took.
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  Speaker 3: Senator.
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  Speaker 1: It was five years, and the whistle blowers that have
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  Speaker 1: now come forward are saying, we believe the reason why
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  Speaker 1: this thing dragged on for so long is because they
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  Speaker 1: were actually wanting to slow play it so that the
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  Speaker 1: statue of limitations for certain years and taxes would then
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  Speaker 1: click in so that we ran out of time. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, this investigation was a five year investigation, not
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  Speaker 1: because there was so much to go through, but because
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to make sure that some years that were
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  Speaker 1: very damning, that could be major crimes, would just fall off.
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  Speaker 1: And that's exactly now what this whistleblower said when he
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  Speaker 1: did the most recent interviews. There's money that was never
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  Speaker 1: paid on millions of income that we know of that
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  Speaker 1: we can do nothing about now because the statue of limitations.
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  Speaker 1: That to me is also a shocking abuse of power.
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  Speaker 1: If in fact the DOJ was purposely saying, keep slowing up,
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  Speaker 1: keep slowing up, and then oh, well, we can't charge
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  Speaker 1: him anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's exactly right. And there's two other pieces of
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  Speaker 2: breaking news that that are broken within the last twenty
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  Speaker 2: four hours that are highly relevant to the Biden cover up. One,
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  Speaker 2: as you noted, is is the most serious claims were
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  Speaker 2: the potential FARA violations and far as the foreign agent's
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  Speaker 2: Registration Act concerning twenty fourteen and twenty fifth. Hunter Biden's
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  Speaker 2: most problematic conduct was in twenty fourteen and twenty fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: So you had FARA violations potentially, and then you had
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  Speaker 2: very serious criminal tax violations. And essentially what happened is
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  Speaker 2: they slow walked it long enough for the statute of
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  Speaker 2: limitations to run on those so that Hunter Biden faces
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  Speaker 2: no liability whatsoever. Now, one of the two pieces of
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  Speaker 2: new news that has broken is that US Attorney Weiss,
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  Speaker 2: who was in charge of this, wanted to bring charges
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  Speaker 2: in both the District of Columbia and the Central District
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  Speaker 2: of California, and he was turned down. What we have
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  Speaker 2: discovered since then is that the US attorney in DC, Graves,
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  Speaker 2: who was appointed by Joe Biden, had been a donor
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  Speaker 2: to Joe Biden on two separate occasions. Graves gave to
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  Speaker 2: Biden five hundred dollars in April twenty twenty and one
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars in May of twenty twenty. So one of
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  Speaker 2: the two US attorneys who said no, we're not going
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  Speaker 2: to bring charges against Hunter is a Joe Biden donor.
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  Speaker 2: The other US attorney as strata in the Central District
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  Speaker 2: of California was a Kamala Harris donor, and specifically, in
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  Speaker 2: twenty fifteen, Estrada gave five hundred dollars to then California
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  Speaker 2: Attorney General Kamala Harris. So you literally had donors to
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  Speaker 2: Joe Biden and Kamala Harris saying no, we don't want
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  Speaker 2: to bring the really serious charges against Hunter Biden that
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  Speaker 2: raises obvious conflicts of interest that the Biden DOJ. It
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  Speaker 2: continues to be, sadly the most political attorney general and
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  Speaker 2: the most political DOJ we've ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: You were, I think the first Senator that I know of,
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  Speaker 1: and if I'm wrong, I apologize, But that called for
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  Speaker 1: the real possibility of impeaching Merrick Garland over his testimony
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  Speaker 1: to Congress. Now, seeing what you have seen, do you
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  Speaker 1: believe that there are going to be many more elected
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  Speaker 1: officials coming to the same conclusion that not only is
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  Speaker 1: this Department of Justice corrupt, but the leader lied to
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  Speaker 1: Congress and knew he was lying to cover up for
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  Speaker 1: his boss, the President of the United States of America.
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  Speaker 2: Look, either these irs whistleblowers are lying or Merrick Garland
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  Speaker 2: is guilty of lying under oath to Congress an obstruction
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  Speaker 2: of justice. It's one of the two. It is possible
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  Speaker 2: the whistleblowers are lying. We need to investigate that and
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  Speaker 2: determine that. I will say, on the face of it,
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  Speaker 2: the indissia, we have a lot of reason to believe
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  Speaker 2: they're credible witnesses. They're not partisan Republicans, they don't have
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  Speaker 2: an axe to grind. But if they are telling the truth,
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  Speaker 2: then Merrick Garland lied under oath to Congress in response
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  Speaker 2: to my questioning, that is a felony with jail time.
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  Speaker 2: And if they're telling the truth, Merrick Garland and lawyers
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  Speaker 2: working for him are also responsible for obstruction of justice,
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  Speaker 2: which is yet another felony. If that is true, I
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  Speaker 2: think it is inevitable for any reasonable or rational member
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  Speaker 2: of Congress, by which I mean sadly zero Democrats and
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  Speaker 2: some Republicans. I think the inevitable conclusion is that Garland
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  Speaker 2: must be impeached. The reason I say zero Democrats it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter. I don't think the Democrats will vote to
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  Speaker 2: impeach him, even if it is proven if they have
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  Speaker 2: videotape of the committing felonies, the Democrats are not going
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  Speaker 2: to vote to impeach him because it's all partisan politics
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  Speaker 2: to them. Whether Republicans vote or not, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: but I think the evidence is becoming more and more compelling,
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  Speaker 2: and I will say so. On Monday's podcast, I called
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  Speaker 2: for the Department of Justice to appoint a special counsel
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  Speaker 2: to investigate Merrick Garland and whether to prosecute him for
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  Speaker 2: lying under oath and obstruction justice. And I will say
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  Speaker 2: that got a lot of folks talking. I know on
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  Speaker 2: Megan Kelly's podcast, she was wondering, well, wait a second,
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  Speaker 2: is there a conflict between this and impeachment. Let me
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  Speaker 2: be clear, both should be pursued. Absolutely, the House should
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  Speaker 2: open an impeachment investigation into Merrick Garland determine whether or
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  Speaker 2: not these irs whistleblowers are telling the truth. That absolutely
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  Speaker 2: should happen. Simultaneously, the Department of Justice should appoint a
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  Speaker 2: special counsel because these are felonies that on the face
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  Speaker 2: of it, there is serious, incredible evidence that Attorney General
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  Speaker 2: Merrick Garland committed.
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  Speaker 1: I want to ask you one last question on this,
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  Speaker 1: and that is the media narrative. We are now starting
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  Speaker 1: to see more consistent coverage and.
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  Speaker 3: That could go away.
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  Speaker 1: But I do believe that we are seeing a media
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  Speaker 1: that realizes now they can't get away from this any
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  Speaker 1: longer because there's too many people that are coming out,
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion, who are just telling the truth, and
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  Speaker 1: there's too many secrets that are coming out now that
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  Speaker 1: they cannot stop. When you look at it center from
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  Speaker 1: that perspective, what is the point of no return for
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  Speaker 1: Joe Biden with his relationship with the media. He has
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  Speaker 1: been protected, But I also think there's a weird time
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  Speaker 1: clock here. If you're gonna get rid of Joe Biden
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  Speaker 1: as the candidate, you better do it quickly because you
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  Speaker 1: need to find your next horse. And it seems now
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  Speaker 1: like they're saying, Okay, do we get rid of him
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  Speaker 1: or do we not?
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  Speaker 3: Do we let him fall? Do we not? Do we
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  Speaker 3: prop him up? Do we not?
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of politics in this from the Democrats
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  Speaker 1: now they didn't have to deal with even a month ago.
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  Speaker 2: Look, that's exactly right. I guarantee you there are a
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  Speaker 2: lot of Democrats getting worried right now. They're still counting
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  Speaker 2: on the corrupt corporate media to cover for Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 2: But we're seeing cracks in the wall, and CBS had
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  Speaker 2: the one of the two irs whistleblowers on the six
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  Speaker 2: o'clock news. That was a big deal. I'll tell you
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  Speaker 2: another story that broke this week again on CBS News.
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  Speaker 2: It's a story from Catherine Herridge, who's done some good
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  Speaker 2: reporting for CBS. She's one of the few reporters there
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  Speaker 2: that's actually willing to actually track down news. Let me
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  Speaker 2: just read you the headline from CBS. Quote Hunter, Biden's
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  Speaker 2: former business partner was willing to go before a grand jury.
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  Speaker 2: He never got the chance. And this is, of course
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  Speaker 2: Tony Babolinski, who testified that Joe Biden was involved in
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  Speaker 2: the business dealings, the business dealings with China. He testified
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  Speaker 2: he came forward and said that ten percent for the
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  Speaker 2: big guy. The big guy was Joe Biden. Now, Biden
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  Speaker 2: has flat out denied that as recently as this week.
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  Speaker 2: He's told reporters no, wasn't me. I didn't do it. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: no details. By the way, he just keeps yelling no
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  Speaker 2: at reporters. You know, he's kind of like a grumpy
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  Speaker 2: old man in his front yard with a shotgun, screaming
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  Speaker 2: get off my lawn. He just keeps screaming no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: And that's the total explanation the White House is giving.
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  Speaker 2: But here's what CBS reported, which is that Tony Babolinski
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  Speaker 2: was willing to testify before the grand jury, and his
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  Speaker 2: attorney affirmatively reached out to the office of Delaware US
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  Speaker 2: Attorney David Weiss. Weiss didn't return their calls. So the
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  Speaker 2: obvious inference is the order from the Department of Justice
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  Speaker 2: is we don't want the big guy. If you've got
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  Speaker 2: a witness who testifies about the big guy, we don't
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  Speaker 2: want to hear about it. We're not interested. We want
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  Speaker 2: to plunge our head in the sand like an Ostrich
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  Speaker 2: because the job of d OJ is protect the big guy.
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  Speaker 2: That is yet another example of at best malfeasance, but
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  Speaker 2: at worse, active obstruction of justice from main Justice, shutting
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  Speaker 2: down investigations into very serious evidence of criminality by Joe
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  Speaker 2: Biden because they didn't want Joe Biden implicated, notwithstanding the evidence.
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  Speaker 1: I got to ask you one more question about David
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  Speaker 1: Weison since you just brought that up, and this is
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  Speaker 1: obviously the media has been obsessed with David Weiss as
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  Speaker 1: he was Trump appointed.
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  Speaker 3: Trump appointed.
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  Speaker 1: You explained in the last podcast how that's incredibly misleading
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  Speaker 1: because without the two Democratic senators, he would never have
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: gotten the job. He's a Democrat, he's not a Republican,
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  Speaker 1: and it's pretty absurd to imply that he's a Trump guy,
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  Speaker 1: especially what we're seeing here.
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  Speaker 3: But the fact that Weiss.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't return the phone call, now, how damning is that
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  Speaker 1: to David Weiss and this investigation. And before you answer that,
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  Speaker 1: If he didn't return their phone call, it's probably because
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: he knew exactly what he was going to hear from
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  Speaker 1: Tony Bobolinski and he didn't want to admit that he
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  Speaker 1: hurt it.
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  Speaker 2: Well maybe, and I will say one thing you said
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  Speaker 2: we don't necessarily necessarily know is true. You said that
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  Speaker 2: Weiss is a Democrat. We don't know that. What we
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  Speaker 2: know is that he was not a vocal and outspoken Republican.
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  Speaker 2: And we also know that his appointment is US Attorney
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  Speaker 2: under Trump had to be signed off on by both
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  Speaker 2: Democrat Senators Chris Coons and Tom Carper. So there's no
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  Speaker 2: evidence I'm aware of that he's actively a Democrat, but
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  Speaker 2: he's not. Every time the media refers to him as
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump appointed US attorney, they're trying to suggest he's
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  Speaker 2: a Republican and a Trump partisan. There is zero evidence
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  Speaker 2: of that. He may be a Democrat, but we simply
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  Speaker 2: don't know. What we do know is that Tony Bobolinsky
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  Speaker 2: said at a press conference. This is a quote from
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: Tony Bobolinski quote. I've heard Joe Biden say that he's
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  Speaker 2: never discussed business with Hunter. That is false. I have
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: first hand knowledge about this because I directly dealt with
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  Speaker 2: the Biden family, including Joe Biden, and CBS News contacted
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  Speaker 2: him and baby Lensky says he stands by those statements.
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  Speaker 2: And so the fact that when his attorney called David
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  Speaker 2: Wise and said, hey, if you want me to talk
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  Speaker 2: to the grand jury about this, they didn't call him back,
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  Speaker 2: what it tells you is DOJ did not want to
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  Speaker 2: hear that evidence. What we don't know is whether it
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  Speaker 2: was David Weis who didn't want to hear it, or
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  Speaker 2: whether it was the higher ups a DOJ that were
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  Speaker 2: preventing him from going down that line. Because we talked
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: about in both Monday and Wednesday's pods, and I will say,
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: if you're interested in this story, Monday and Wednesday's pods
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: this week are exceptionally important because we do deep dives.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: We've covered three new major pieces of breaking news on
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Hunter Biden in this podcast. But there's a lot in
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  Speaker 2: Monday and Wednesday that we went into, including the fact
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: that that main Justice and that the US attorneys actively
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: prevented investigation into the Big Guy. Assistant US attorney working
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: for David Weiss actively prevented investigation into the Big Guy,
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  Speaker 2: into Hunter Biden's father. And so that is consistent with
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  Speaker 2: what the whistleblowers told us, which is they didn't want
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  Speaker 2: to hear anything anything, anything that implicated Joe Biden in
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  Speaker 2: criminality and not calling Tony Bobelinski back is one hundred
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  Speaker 2: percent consistent with the whistleblowers testimony, which, among other things,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: raises the likelihood that the whistleblower is telling the truth.
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  Speaker 2: And Merrick Garland lied under oath to Congress and committed
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  Speaker 2: felonies for which impeachment is merited and for which a
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: special counsel should be appointed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and as you mentioned, if you missed the last
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  Speaker 1: two shows, go back download them. And make sure that
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: you listen because we have a lot more in there.
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  Speaker 3: I want to move to.
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  Speaker 1: The Supreme Court case that is rocked the liberal mindset today,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: the liberal world. They are genuinely freaking out right now.
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  Speaker 1: The Supreme Court has ruled that racial preferences are unconstitutional
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  Speaker 1: in college admissions. The racial preferences in college admissions violate,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: they said, the equal Protection Clause the Constitution. The Supreme
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Court has decided in this historic decision, it will have
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  Speaker 1: profound implications for racial preference in many areas of law
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: and public policy. But there was two cases that they
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: looked at here. One of them dealt with an Ivy
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: League school. The other one dealt with unc And in
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: both of these cases they said, you cannot give basically
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  Speaker 1: extra credit or points or bonuses, or have quotas solely
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  Speaker 1: based on the color of someone's skin. Explain this in
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: more detail and specifically how the Fourteenth Amendment applies in
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: these cases.
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  Speaker 3: Well, because there's been a lot of debate about that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this decision yesterday is a major landmark decision. It
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  Speaker 2: is a six three decision. The majority opinion is written
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  Speaker 2: by Chief Justice Roberts, and this decision strikes down racial
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  Speaker 2: discrimination and racial quotas in universities. As you noted, there
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: were two cases that were consolidated. One was the University
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: of North Carolina. Now that is relevant because UNC is
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  Speaker 2: a state school, so it is action by the government.
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  Speaker 2: And what the court concluded is that the fourteenth Amendment
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  Speaker 2: to the Constitution, which protects grants every citizen the equal
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: protection of the laws, that under the fourteenth Amendment, the
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: government cannot discriminate based on race. So every government school,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: whether you're talking about UNC, whether you're talking about University
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: of Texas, whether you're talking about University of California, if
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: it is a government school, they cannot discriminate based on race.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: That's a landmark ruling. The other case was Harvard University. Now,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Harvard University is not a government school. It is a
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: private university. The fourteenth Amendment does not con strict what
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: a private university does. The fourteenth Amendment applies only to government.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: So the ruling about Harvard University concerned Title seven, which
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: is the landmark civil rights decision, and also Title six.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: It's actually Title six of the Civil Rights Act of
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: nineteen sixty four, which governs university, and it concluded the
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: same standard applies that under the Civil Rights Act of
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: nineteen sixty four, at likewise under the Fourteenth Amendment, that
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: racial discrimination is illegal. The consequences are massive. Two days ago,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: under existing Supreme Court precedent, it was permissible for UNC
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: and for Harvard and for every other school to say,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: if we like your race, if it's a race that
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: we want to favor, we can give you a benefit,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: we can give you a plus factor. We can favor
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: you entirely because of your race. And if we don't
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: like your race, we can penalize you, we can harm you,
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: we can reduce your chances of admission entirely because of race.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: The Supreme Court, by a six ' to three vote
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: yesterday said that is unconstitutional with state schools, that is
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: illegal with private schools. Discriminating based on race is wrong.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: When you see this case, how will this change things,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: not just in the school admissions process, but now And
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: they've been screaming on TV about this all day long,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: that this is going to destroy minorities chances to succeed.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: That's clearly not the case in college admissions. In fact,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: affirmative action has been hurting Asian Americans for quite some time.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: In a major way, not being able to get into
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: some universities with incredible qualifications. They're saying, this is also
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: going to destroy this country in businesses and private sector
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: as well. Put that into perspective.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Well, this is a landmark change because every university that
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: was engaged in racial to discrimination is going to have
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: to change their admissions policies. Now, I fear the vast
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: majority of universities are going to do everything they can
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: to get around and to fight and to engage in
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: massive resistance to this decision. The vast majority of our universities,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: the faculty and the administrators bizarrely want as a matter
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: of principle, as a matter of virtue, they want to
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: discriminate based on race. And the bizarre thing is, look,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: one of the parades of horribles that you will see leftists,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: whether Democrats or corrupt corporate media voices or university administrators say,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: is without discriminating based on race, we will get lily
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: white schools. That that's the specter that they put forth. Now,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: they are a host of ways that you can ensure
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: sure that you have a diverse student body without discriminating
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: on race. The most obvious one that some universities do
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: is to give a preference for low income students, a
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: student who is from a poor family, a student who
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: has struggled to overcome adversity. And I think there's a
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: very reasonable and principled argument that a student who is
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: overcoming adversity, that that's a real sense of accomplishment. That
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: if you grow up with enormous privilege and enormous advantages
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: and you do well, great, But if you're a single
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: mom in a really tough environment and you excel academically,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: that reflects something positive or beneficial. That will produce student
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: bodies that are racially diverse. But what it will not do.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: So the existing university racial preferences benefit African American students
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: and Hispanic students whose parents are rich, who go to
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: a fancy boarding school, but yet they just view it
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: as race. And so if you happen to be a
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: minority student with very significant socioeconomic advantages, you get an
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: enormous boost. And if you happen to be a poor
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: white student. Let's say you're growing up in Appalachia and
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: your parents no one in the family has ever gone
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: to college, and you work your tail off, well, they
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: don't recognize that, and so if universities want to, they
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: can number one create a preference for low income students
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: to give an additional benefit to overcoming adversity. They can
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: number two create a benefit if you're the first person
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: in your family to go to college. That's another way
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: that we know will statistically produce a more racially diverse
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: student body. They can number three create a preference if
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: you grow up in a household where English is not
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: the first language. All three of those are non racial
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: proxies that result in a racially diverse student body. Now
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: here's the amazing thing, ben most of our universities don't
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: care even if they can get the exact same damn
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: student body they had yesterday in terms of racial breakdown.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: They affirmatively want to discriminate on race. It shows them
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: I am woe care me roar. And so you're going
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: to see a couple of things happen. Number one, there's
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: a portion of this decision where the majority says, look,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: nothing in this case means that universities cannot consider overcoming adversity,
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: overcoming discrimination, overcoming hardship. What's going to happen is in
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: university essays, the schools are going to try very hard
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: to replicate exactly the affirmative action and quota system they
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: had before. And by the way, if someone is a
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: minority student, every student is going to be coached that
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: they're opening sentence is going to be as a Hispanic
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: kid growing up in hardship, here's the adversity of as
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: an African American. Here's all of the hardships I overcame.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: That will be the game to get around the system.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: And here's the second piece, Ben. You may have noticed
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: universities all aroun across the country in the past year
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: announcing that they're eliminating the SAT and the ACT, announcing
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: that those tests are optional. And you may have wondered why.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, look, when you and I went to school,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: we had to take either the SAT or ACT. It
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: used to be every school required that. Why have they
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: suddenly started getting rid of it in mass And the
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: answer is simple. Most of the universities anticipated yesterday's ruling.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: The writing was on the wall. They knew where this
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: was going, and so they knew that come June of
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: this year, they were not going to be able to
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: discriminate based on race. And these radicals and universities they
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: want to so much that they said, oh crap. If
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: we have SAT school scores, if we have ACT scores,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: and we keep doing the same thing, we keep admitting
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: people of races that we want a preference whose scores
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: are one, two hundred and three hundred points lower than
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: students of different races, well then it's going to be
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: obvious and we're gonna get sued, and we're gonna get nailed,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: and we're going to pay judgments. So the way we
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: avoid it is we just won't collect SAT scores or
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: ACT scores, so there won't be that objective metric. The
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: entire reason the schools are getting rid of these scores
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: is because they want to defy the Supreme Court decision
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: and they want to keep discriminating even though they could
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: get the identically diverse student bodies without racial discrimination. These
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: leftists believe racial discrimination is an affirmatively good thing.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: There was a question that was asked of Joe Biden today,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: and I want to get your reaction to this, He
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: was asked by a reporter after he came out denouncing
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: this decision by the Supreme Court and basically telling universities
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: keep doing what you're doing. He was asked, is this
• 28:05
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  Speaker 3: I want everybody to hear the president.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: He clearly wanted this question asked, and he stopped as
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: he was walking out the room. The question from the
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: reporter so you can hear it is the question. This
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: is short. It says, quote, is this a row Court question?
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  Speaker 1: Mark President Biden. You'll hear him say in the background,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: this is not a normal court.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Listen, and the pression of lafe Pocket said.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: The Supreme Court has pally good question its own legitimacy.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: Is this a row of course, this is.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: Not a normal senator.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: You could hear him there only thing he said, this
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: is not a normal court, and then he walked out
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: of the room. This to me is screams another example
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: of the left trying to undermine the Supreme Court, making
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: way for the possibility of packing the court, telling you
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: that the court doesn't do what we think on the left,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: on the radical left, we'll just redesign the court until
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: it fits the way we want it to look.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: So Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer and the Democrats in
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: the Senate have for multiple years been engaged in an
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: extreme campaign to demonize and try to delegitimize the Supreme
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Court of the United States. Their campaign is dangerous. It
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: undermines the rule of law. The independence of the judiciary
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: is fundamental for protecting our civil liberties, protecting our constitutional rights,
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: to upholding the Constitution. And these Democrats do not give
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: a damn. These are the same people Merrick Garland, leading
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Biden's doj sits by refuses to enforce federal law while
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: violent radicals protest in front of the homes of Supreme
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Court justices that he disagrees with that. Joe Biden disagrees
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: with They're threatening violence, and the Biden DOJ refuses to
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: enforce the law because they would tear the court down,
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: they would burn it to the ground. Chuck Schumer stood
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: on the floor on the steps of the Supreme Court
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: and said, you will re the whirlwind if you issue
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: rulings we do not like. I think it is shameful
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: what Biden is doing. And by the way, the decision
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: that he says is not normal is that discriminating based
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: on race is wrong and illegal. And let me tell
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: you a different aspect of this decision that is really important,
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: which is many most of our universities in this country
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: today actively and aggressively discriminate against Asian American students. The
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Ivy League schools, Harvard is quite shameless and naked in this.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: And sadly, I'm an alumnus of Harvard, and so I'm
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: embarrassed of the school. I went to law school. But
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: they say, look, if we admitted students based on merit,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: there would be too many Asians. Asian Americans do really
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: well in school, they have great grades, they get great
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: test scores. We don't want too many Asians. So we're
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: going to use racial discrimination to prevent Asians from getting
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: in at the numbers their academic results would merit. It
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: is shameful. And by the way, Harvard has a long history.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: You go back to the nineteen fifties, Harvard had what
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: was called the Jewish quotas, where they capped Jewish students
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: and it was the same argument, if we let students
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: in based on merit, based on their scores and grades,
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: we'd get too many Jews. This was how Harvard put it,
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: too many Jews. We don't want too many Jews, so
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: we're going to put a quota because we don't want
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: merit to produce outcomes we don't like. That's what these
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: schools are doing. And I got to say, you know,
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: during the Trump administration, the Democrats voted on what they
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: called an Asian American Hate Crime Bill, and it was
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: based on a fairly ludicrous conceit, which is they said
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: there has been an increase in violence against Asian Americans.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: That's true, and they said the reason for that is
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: because Donald Trump said that COVID nineteen came from Wuhan,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: China and called it the Wuhan virus. That's absurd. But
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: they're playing politics. They wanted to say, Haha, the reason
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: there's violence against Asian Americans is because Donald Trump accurately
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: described the source of COVID nineteen. Well, when the Senate
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: voted on that, I authored an amendment, and I forced
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: to vote on the Senate floor. And my amendment was
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: one paragraph. It's very simple. You can go and read
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: the amendment. My amendment said, and I'm paraphrasing. I don't
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: have the language in front of me, but my amendment said,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: any university that discriminates against Asian Americans in admissions or
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: in scholarships shall be ineligible for federal funds that the
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: federal government is not going to pay you if you're
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: engaged in racial discrimination. That's all it said. It was
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: one paragraph. You know what. The vote was a straight
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: party line vote. Every single Democrat voted no. The author
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: of the ridiculous political bill, Maisie Herono, who is herself
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Asian American, she happily voted no. And you know what,
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: I am convinced, to my knowledge, not a single Democrat
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: has ever been asked by a single reporter, why did
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: you vote in favor of universities discriminating against Asian Americans.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: And I got to tell you, Ben, in these two
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: Supreme Court cases, I filed an amicus brief in the
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: US Supreme Court. I did it jointly with Michelle Steele.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: Michelle Steele is a Republican from California. She's an Asian American.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: The two of us together filed an amicus brief along
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: with eighty of our colleagues in Congress, urging the Supreme
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Court to do exactly what it did yesterday. And because
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: the Court said you can't discriminate based on race, Joe
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Biden and the Democrats are trying to tear the court
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: to the ground and delegitimize it.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's truly incredible when you look at it from
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: that perspective. I want to also ask you about another issue,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: and it was a religious liberty case that has really
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: kind of been under the radar screen that people need
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: to know about that. Listen to verdict it's a victory there,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: and talk to us a little bit about this victory
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: because we've been doing obviously with these other two breaking
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: news issues.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: But this is a really big deal.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Yes. So this case is called Groth versus the Joy
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: and it involved an individual as an evangelical Christian who
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: was a postal worker and he worked for the Post Office.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: He began working in twenty twelve, and Groff's position generally
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: did not require him working on Sundays. But in twenty thirteen,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: after he began working for them, the Postal Service began
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: delivering for Amazon on Sundays, and Groth asked for a
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: religious accommodation. He said, as an evangelical Christian, he wanted
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: to observe the Sabbath on Sunday and not work work,
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: and the Post Office said no and in fact punished him.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: He received quote progressive discipline for failing to work on Sundays.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: He eventually resigned in twenty nineteen, and he filed a
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: lawsuit saying that under Title seven that the Post Office
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: could have accommodated his request to observe the Sabbath without
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: undue hardship on the conduct of the Post Office's business. Now,
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: in this instance, there was a really bad Supreme Court decision,
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: an older decision called trans World Airlines versus Hartisan, where
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: the Supreme Court has said you don't have to accommodate
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: someone's religious faith if there is quote more than a
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: deminimous cost. In other words, if there's more than just
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: even the tiniest costs of the employers, Nope, you can
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: ignore the employees say screw you. Your religion doesn't matter.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: You have to violate your faith. Well, the Supreme Court
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: unanimously ruled in favor of growth. Ruled in favor of
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: religious liberty. Justice Alita wrote that Title seven requires employers
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: who are denying religious accommodation to show that the burdens
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: of granting the accommodation would result in substantial increased costs.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: This is a great victory for religious liberty, and the
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: fact that every single justice agreed, even the liberals, is
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: really important. This is another case where I led the
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: amicus brief. I led it along with Senator James Langford
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: and along with Congressman Mike Johnson and ten other members
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: of Congress, urging the Court to rule exactly as they ruled.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: And I got to say, if you're a person of faith,
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: or if you even just care about religious liberty, you
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: want the First Amendment interpreted to protect your religious liberty,
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: not to have your employer be able to just trample
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: on your faith willy nilly. This is a great victory
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: for religious liberty and it's reason for everyone to celebrate.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: And I got to tell you so, my in laws,
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Heidi's parents are Seventh Day Adventists. Seventh Day Adventists worship
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: on their Christians and Protestant Christians, but they worship on
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: a Jewish Sabbath, so they worship between Friday sundown and
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Saturday sundown, and they take the Sabbath very, very seriously.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: I have to admit I had great joy texting my
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: in laws and telling them about this decision, which they
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: were very happy with because they want their religious liberty
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: rights protected, whether it's worshiping on Saturday or Sunday or
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: whatever your faith is. The Constitution protects religious liberty and
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: this unanimous Supreme Court decision is a big victory for that.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Moving forward with this victory, what does this also mean
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: for other religious you know, liberty victory. There's been a
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: lot of people that feel like that people's faith has
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: been persecuted recently, and people are starting to realize that
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: you can fight back through the court system. Will this
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: help in other cases and other precedents and other issues
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: with religious liberty? And I go back to the issue
• 40:18
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  Speaker 1: writer's direction. But is this going to have precedent moving forward?
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  Speaker 2: Well, yes, and this is going to make a difference
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  Speaker 2: in the workplace. So this was a decision not under
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  Speaker 2: the Constitution, but under Title seven, which is part of
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  Speaker 2: the landmark civil rights law of nineteen sixty four, and
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  Speaker 2: it applies to workplace discrimination. And what it means is
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  Speaker 2: that if you have a genuine religious belief and you
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  Speaker 2: ask your employer to accommodate that religious belief, that the
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  Speaker 2: employer has to do so unless it imposes an undue
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  Speaker 2: hardship on the employer. And this ratchets up the standard
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  Speaker 2: for what constitutes an undue hardship. It used to be
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  Speaker 2: the case that your employer could basically say, well, tough,
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  Speaker 2: your your faith doesn't matter, We're not going to work
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  Speaker 2: to accommodate you. After this decision, there's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a lot more lenient see a lot more willingness to
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  Speaker 2: recognize that faith is legitimate. Look, ben, there is a
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  Speaker 2: reason that religious liberty is protected literally in the first
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  Speaker 2: clause of the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights.
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  Speaker 2: The framers of our constitution believe that every other limit
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  Speaker 2: liberty begins with the first liberty to worship God Almighty
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  Speaker 2: with all of your heart, mind, and soul. That is
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  Speaker 2: an incredibly valuable protection. And by the way, multiple religious
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  Speaker 2: organizations engaged on this issue, including organizations representing Jews, representing Muslims,
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  Speaker 2: representing Sikhs, representing Seventh day Adventists that they've engaged saying
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  Speaker 2: the deminimus test has denied even minor recommodations in the workplace,
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  Speaker 2: things that would have been easy for employers to give,
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  Speaker 2: but they just said, well, tough, no, we're not going
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  Speaker 2: to let you that this is a great victory for liberty.
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  Speaker 2: And I will say there are a lot of areas
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  Speaker 2: in which this Supreme Court has been really, really strong,
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  Speaker 2: but religious liberty may have been the strongest. Consistently. You've
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  Speaker 2: got six justices who care about religious liberty and have
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  Speaker 2: been vigorous and defending it. And I'm really encouraged that
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  Speaker 2: all nine agreed on this, that that's a good thing today,
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  Speaker 2: yesterday was a good day for liberty, and a good
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  Speaker 2: day for religious liberty in particular.
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  Speaker 3: No doubt about it.
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